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Frompavoniato Thegarden State From Pavonia to the Garden State New Jersey’s Dutch Past The 39th Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute 22-24 September 2016 WNew Brunswick, New Jersey 3:00 Thursday, September 22 Organizational meeting for Dutch American Group (DAG) 5:30–7:30 Welcome Reception at the Rutgers University 6:00–9:00 Inn and Conference Center Cocktail hour and dinner at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center Friday, September 23 Presentation of the Hendricks Award and the 9:00–9:30 Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize Welcome and introductions Elizabeth L. Bradley, Historic Hudson Valley 9:30–12:00 “‘Te Egg From Whence Was Hatched the Mighty City of New York’: Session 1: Pavonia Washington Irving’s Portrait of New Jersey” Willem Klooster, Clark University “New Netherland and the Dutch Moment in Atlantic History” Saturday, September 24 9:00–10:30 Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University Session 3: Emerging Scholars “New Jersey in 1658: A Quaker Witness to a Little-known Corner of New Netherland” Liz Covart, host of the popular podcast “Ben Franklin’s World,” moder- ates a panel of three of NNI’s Emerging Scholars in which the panelists 10:30-11:00 discuss what inspired them to study New Netherland. Break Deborah Hamer, Omohundro Institute, College of William and Mary Andrea Mosterman, University of New Orleans “Te Geography of Slave Life in New Netherland” Artyom Anikin, University of Amsterdam Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania Joris van den Tol, Leiden University “‘Who Needs a House Out in Hackensack?’ Native People 10:30–1:00 and Dutch People West of the Hudson” Session 4: Dutch Defensive Works in New Netherland 12:00–1:30 Oscar Hefing, New Holland Foundation / Dutch Fortress Museum Box lunch provided “Simon Stevin in the New World: Archaeological Research into 17th- century Dutch Defensive Works in the Americas” 1:30–3:00 Session 2: Heritage Jaap Jacobs, University of St Andrews Dirk Mouw, Reformed Church Center “‘An Upright Stockade and a Small Breastwork’: “Persistence of Dutch Identity and the Reformed Church” Fortifcations in New Netherland” Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley Craig Lukezic, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Afairs “From ‘Baas’ to ‘Boss’: America’s Dutch-Speaking Black “Archaeological Investigations of Fort Casimir” Community from Seventeenth-Century New Netherland to Nineteenth- Anne-Marie Cantwell, Rutgers University and Century New York and New Jersey” Diana diZerega Wall, City College of New York Kate Lynch, Independent scholar “Building Forts and Alliances: Archaeology at Freeman “Tere will be a College called Queens in our Province of New Jersey” and Massapeag, Two Native American Sites.” 1:00 Box lunch provided “From Pavonia to the Garden State” is made possible in part by support from the following: Gerald Auten, Karen Flinn, Elisabeth Funk, Richard Kiger, Edward Lacy, Sandra Lazo, Marilyn Van Kirk Mull, James Sefcik, Herman Solomon, Dennis and Ellen Zunon, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dutch Culture, Global Factories, New Holland Foundation, Nederlands Vesting Museum, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, and Shared Cultural Heritage. Artyom Anikin, University of Amsterdam Willem Klooster, PhD, Clark University Anikin is currently fnishing his PhD on the cultural legacy of New Netherland under Klooster specializes in the history of the Atlantic world (15th–19th centuries). He the supervision of the Dutch Golden Age Studies program at the University of Am- is Professor at Clark University, where he has taught since 2003, where he teaches sterdam. Raised in New York, he moved to the Netherlands in 2005, where he studied classes on comparative colonialism (the Americas), the age of Atlantic revolutions literature and history at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. In 2014 he was (1776–1824), and Caribbean history. His books include Te Dutch Moment: War, awarded the NNRC Student Scholar in Residence Research Grant to study at the New Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016), Revolu- York State Archives in Albany. Much of his research focuses on the restoration of Dutch tions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009), and Illicit Riches: Dutch rule in New York during the New Orange Period (1673–1674). He recently published a Trade in the Caribbean, 1648–1795 (1998). Klooster contributed “Failing to brief biography of Governor Anthony Colve in the journal New York History. Square the Circle: Te West India Company’s Volte-Face in 1638-39” to A Beauti- Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Historic Hudson Valley ful and Fruitful Place: Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Papers, Vol. 3, which was Bradley is a historian of New York, a veteran public program curator, and a consultant published by the New Netherland Institute in 2013. to arts and culture institutions around New York. She is the author of Knickerbocker: Craig Lukezic, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Afairs Te Myth Behind New York, a cultural history of New York’s frst mascot, and the edi- Since 2003 Lukezic has served as a historic archaeologist for the Delaware Divi- tor of the Penguin Classics Edition of Washington Irving’s Te Legend of Sleepy Hollow sion of Historical and Cultural Afairs. Along with project review, he has estab- and Other Stories and Irving’s A History of New York. Her other contributions include lished the “Early Colonial Symposium of the Delaware Valley,” and initiated the chapters in the Morbid Anatomy Anthology, the Cambridge Companion to the Literature Fort Casimir Project. In this position, he has contributed to the Lewes Maritime of New York and Exploring Historic Dutch New York. Archaeological Project and Avery’s Rest. Currently he is serving as the president Liz Covart, PhD, Ben Franklin’s World of the Archaeological Society of Delaware and teaching as an adjunct at Delaware Covart is the creator and host of “Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early Ameri- State University, where he is the principle investigator to the ongoing Wildcat can History,” an award -nominated podcast that seeks to create wide awareness about Manor Project. Craig’s formal education comes from the College of William and history and the work of professional historians. She earned her PhD in history from the Mary (M.A.) and Penn State University (B.A.). University of California, Davis. Presently, she is working on turning her dissertation Kate Lynch, Independent scholar into a book about how the people of Albany, New York created frst Dutch, then British, Kate Lynch is an educator and independent researcher who was awarded the and fnally American identities between 1614 and 1830. She is also the Lapidus Initiative 2015–16 Albert A. Smith Fellowship from the New Brunswick Teological Assistant Editor for New Media at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History Seminary for her work on Bergen County, New Jersey and Teunis Dey, a charter and Culture. member of Rutgers (Queens). In 2011 Lynch was awarded a travel grant by the Anne-Marie Cantwell, PhD, Rutgers University and New York University Association for Documentary Editing for her research on the New Amsterdam Cantwell is an archaeologist whose interests include colonialism, the development of soldier-farmer Dirck Siecken Dey whose farm was located at today’s Dey Street urban societies, Native trade and ritual in both pre- and post-contact eastern North near the World Trade Center. In her role as an educator, Kate was a three-time America, and the politics of the past. She is Professor Emerita at Rutgers University- U.S. State Department fellow on a grant to Turkey. Newark and Visiting Scholar at New York University. Her publications include Unearth- Andrea Mosterman, PhD, University of New Orleans ing Gotham, written with Diana Wall, with whom Cantwell is currently working on a Mosterman’s work explores the multi-faceted dimensions of slavery, the slave book on the archaeology of New Netherland. Cantwell has also co-edited Aboriginal trade, and cross-cultural contact in the Dutch Atlantic and early America. She has Economy and Ritual in the Eastern Woodlands, Ethics in Anthropology, and Copper in received various grants and fellowships, including the Gilder Lehrman Research Late Prehistoric North America. Fellowship and the Quinn Research Residencies at the New York State Archives Jeroen Dewulf, PhD, University of California, Berkeley and New York State Library. She has published in, among others, the Journal of Dewulf is Associate Professor in the Department of German at the University of Califor- African History, and has developed a digital exhibit entitled “Slavery in New Neth- nia, Berkeley and is the current director of the university’s Institute of European Studies. erland” for the website of the New Netherland Institute. Currently, she is working His diverse research interests include Dutch and Portuguese (post)colonial literature on her manuscript “Sharing Spaces: African and Dutch Interactions in Early New and history, the transatlantic slave trade, Low Countries studies, and Swiss literature York,” under contract with Cornell University Press. and culture. In addition to numerous other accolades for his scholarship, he was dis- Dirk Mouw, Reformed Church Center, New Brunswick, NJ tinguished with the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute in 2014 for his Dirk Mouw is a historian, translator and a fellow of the Reformed Church Center research on the frst slave community on Manhattan, and in 2015 he was awarded the in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received the 2010 Hendricks Award from Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize, also from the New Netherland Institute. the New Netherland Institute for his dissertation, “Moederkerk and Vaderland: Evan Haefeli, PhD, Texas A&M University Religion and Ethnic Identity in the Middle Colonies, 1690-1772.” He coedited Haefeli joined Texas A&M University in 2014 afer teaching at Columbia, Tufs, and Transatlantic Pieties: Dutch Clergy in Colonial America (2013).
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